[Development] Qt6 repo

Joerg Bornemann joerg.bornemann at qt.io
Thu Jan 14 13:50:14 CET 2021


On 1/13/21 5:28 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:37:21 PST Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
>> * stop using git submodules
>>
>> Using them serves no real purposes anymore. We anyway have our own scripting
>> in form of init-repository to avoid that people have to deal with that
>> stuff.
> 
> Please don't. In fact, I recommend the opposite: delete the Perl script and
> use submodules properly.
> 
> I do use "git pull --recurse-submodules", "git submodule update", "git
> submodule foreach", etc. often.

Same here. Please refrain from cooking up our own git submodule 
replacement soup.


Cheers,

Joerg


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